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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 3 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Ellet and his steam-rams at Memphis. (search)
l the story. The Monarch next struck the General Price a glancing blow which cut her starboard wheel clean off, and completely disabled her from further participation in the fight. It is impossible to reconcile this statement with that of Admiral Walke, on page 450, q. v. The reports of the engagement are meager and conflicting, but it has always been the general impression that the Price received her disabling blow in an accidental collision with the Beauregard, as has been stated by Captain Hurt, commander of the Beauregard. The reports of Flag Officer Davis and of General M. Jeff. Thompson, commander of the Confederate troops at Memphis, agree in saying that the Price was rammed by one of her consorts,--General Thompson adding that the blow, which he states was delivered by the Beauregard, knocked off the Price's wheel and entirely disabled her.-editors. As soon as the Queen was freed from the wreck of the sinking Lovell, and before she could recover headway, she was attac
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at New Madrid (Island number10), Fort Pillow, and Memphis. (search)
reported was: Gun-boatswounded, 3. Ram fleet-wounded, 1 (Col. Ellet, who subsequently died). Total, 4. Confederate River defense fleet, at Fort Pillow and Memphis. Capt. J. E. Montgomery, commanding. Little Rebel (flag-ship), Capt. Montgomery; General Bragg, Capt. William H. H. Leonard, General Sterling Price, First Officer, J. E. Henthorne; Sumter, Capt. W. W. Lamb; General Earl Van Dorn, Capt. Isaac D. Fulkerson; General M. Jeff. Thompson, Capt. John H. Burke; General Lovell, Capt. James C. Delaney; General Beauregard, Capt. James Henry Hurt. Each vessel carried one or more guns, probably 32-pounders. The Confederate loss in the action off Fort Pillow, May 10th, as officially reported, was: killed, 2; wounded, 1=3. No report was made of the Confederate loss in the action at Memphis of June 6th, nor is it possible, in view of the irregular organization of the fleet, the nature of the conflict, and the dispersal of the survivors, to form even an approximate estimate of it.